Adobe brings out native 64-bit Flash Player for Windows, Mac OS X & Linux

(insert snarky comment about how it'll crash even faster now)

This is honestly a good thing, one thing that porting programs tends to do is help find bugs.

For example, one of OpenBSD's goals in supporting all the hardware it does is that bugs may crop up on a sparc or vax architecture that wouldn't be found if everyone was running on x86.

Hopefully, this will lead to a more stable version of flash.

I don't want to sound unappreciative, but _it's about time_.

I do notice they're using additional hardware acceleration in IE9 only. I wonder what the limitation is in NPAPI that prevents them from supporting other browsers. (And whether/when that limitation would be resolved.)

After they yanked the previous 64-bit player beta for Linux, I'm a little gun-shy now; I'm treating anything they release as "beta" as something they reserve the right to yank out from under me at a moment's notice now.

I'm actually hoping to see Lightspark develop into a reasonable alternative:

http://allievi.sssup.it/techblog/ http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/lightspark https://launchpad.net/lightspark/

first of all let me just say ...

it's about goddamn time they got their act together. 64-bit machines have been common for how long now?

next let me say ...

I hope HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript bury Flash quickly ... in a nice shallow grave. With IE6 dying, all that's left to bury is Flash.